The Baltic airline company airBaltic has announced an internet contest where people vote for Baltic cities, after which the planes are subsequently named. The company connecting Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia will offer a total of 48 aircraft, each country separately has sixteen machines. However, from a Czech point of view, some names sound more than spicy.
For example, Estonian ranking the 3,000-strong village of Kunda with an area of less than 10 km2 leads the vote for the name of the aircraft, followed by the even smaller Püssi with 886 citizens and an area of 2.1 km2. This was also helped by some voters from the Czech Republic, because as soon as the call to vote began to spread among Czech users of the Reddit platform, the numbers for the named villages began to rise sharply. In contrast, the Estonian capital Tallinn is only in third place with less than 4.5 thousand votes.
AirBaltic, which connects airlines from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, celebrated its 35th anniversary and proposed naming its fleet of 48 aircraft after Baltic cities. The company has made it possible to vote for individual cities on its website, and the ones with the most votes will get on the fuselage of their planes. “We are honored to be part of this small but deeply connected union and our fleet will carry the names of these Baltic cities with pride,” the airline said.
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Reddit user r/czech joined the call to vote for a small Estonian village. He wrote to his followers that he is aware of the Czech meaning of the name of the village. “I am from Estonia and I know the Czech translation of the name of this city, but it is also my hometown and I wish to see its name on the plane,” said the user on the Reddit platform.
It is not the first international Internet prank with a Czech trace. In the fall of 2022, the Czech internet came to life with the phenomenon of Královce, which was related to the Russian occupation of Ukrainian territory. There was even an internet one petitionwhich proposed that the city of Kaliningrad in the Kaliningrad region, which is a Russian exclave, be annexed to the Czech Republic. The city was founded in the middle of the 13th century by the Czech king Přemysl Otakar II. and according to the authors of the petition, the Czech Republic is entitled to it. “Therefore, we demand the government of the Czech Republic to send Czech soldiers to Kaliningrad, announce a referendum that will end with a result of 98% in favor of joining the Czech Republic and then annex Kaliningrad and rename it to Královec,” the text of the ironic petition read.
